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ROOSEVELT PLANS
WEEK END TALKS
Labor Problem to Be One
Topic Discussed With
Congress Leaders.
BY J. BUSSELL YOUNG.
WARM SPRINGS, Ga., March 25.—
The problem of labor vs. Industry,
manifesting itself currently in the sit
down habit, win be only one item on
a long list of subjects which President
Roosevelt expects to discuss with con
gressional leaders at the White House
this week end.
The President emphasized this re
lationship today in discussing matters
to which he expects to give Immedi
ate attention on his return to Wash
ington Saturday, denying at the same
time that he has called any confer
ence of party leaders for the specific
purpose of discussing the sit-down
situation.
Talks With Murphy.
Marvin H McIntyre, secretary to
the President, announced last night
that the Chief Executive had called
Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan late
in the evening to congratulate him on
progress made yesterday in peace
negotiations between John L. Lewis
and Walter P. Chrysler. Earlier in the
arening he was informed by telephone
by Secretary of Labor Perkins of yes
terday’s developments.
In conversations here, the President
has made it plain that he realizes the
serious elements of the Detroit labor
troubles, but does not feel unduly
alarmed. He has carefully withheld
any indication of future action by the
White House beyond the general con
ference of Saturday.
Ready to See Leaders.
In denying a report yesterday to the
effect that he had become so alarmed
that he had arranged for a conference
of Senate and House leaders imme
diately on his return to the White
House Saturday, to cope with this
problem, Mr. Roosevelt said also that,
as in the case of all vacations away
from Washington, he had let the
Speaker of the House as well as the
leader of the House and the leader
of the Senate know that he would be
glad to see them on his return to take
up with them matters of legislation
and other policies of the administra
tion.
Because of the misunderstanding re
garding the President’s attitude toward
the strike problem and his immediate
plans on his return to Washington
Saturday, he is expected to hold a
special conference here today with the
newspaper correspondents.
Leaves Tomorrow.
President Roosevelt was making
ready today to leave here tomorrow
for Washington.
The President plans to arrive in
Washington before noon Saturday and
unless affairs of state prevent him he
will again pack up in a month’s time
to head for the Gulf of Mexico, w'here
he will go aboard the presidential
yacht Potomac for two weeks’ fishing.
The President was the guest of honor
last night of the secretary of staff of
the little White House, after which
he participated in a bufTet supper for
the hundred or so infantile paralysis
patients of the Warm Springs Founda
tion.
TWO SPECIAL SERVICES '
''Good Friday and Easter Sunrise
Rites Planned in Manassas.
MANASSAS, Va„ Mirch 25 (Spe
cial).—Two union chufch services of
Interest to Manassas churchgoers will
be held on Good Friday and Easter
Sunday. The first of these will be the
-Last Hour,” from 2 to 3 p.m. on Fri
day at the Presbyterian Church, when
Rev. R. M. Graham, pastor of the Bap
tist Church, will preach.
During this period the business
houses of the town will close their
j doors as has been the custom for sev
! eral years past.
For the first time in the history of
I Manassas there will be a sunrise serv
1 Ice to be held on Easter morning be
\ ginning about 5:30. The place of the
\ service will be on the Portner estate,
\ where the pageant for the Dairy Festi
\ val Is held annually. There will be spe
cial music by the combined choirs of
Vhe local churches. Rev. A. L. Maiden,
p. D„ of Clarendon will be the guest
Jninister. In case of bad weather this
service will be held in the Methodist
Church on North Main street.
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Announce Truce in Auto Strike
Scene in Lansing, Mich., executive offices yesterday as truce on sit-doum strike was reached
between union and Chrysler officials. Left to right: John L. Lewis, chairman of the C. I. O.; Gov.
Frank Murphy of Michigan and Walter P. Chrysler, chairman of the auto company.
—A. P. Wirephoto.
Strikes
(Continued From First Page.)
ploys 25,000 workers. Three hours
were needed there to obtain a favor
able vote on evacuation.
Their eyes heavy from loss of sleep,
the union officials moved to other
plants. Strikers In six factories had
accepted the truce terms when the
big blue automobile bus skidded to a
stop before the Chrysler Jefferson
avenue plant at 8:50 am. Three
hours later acceptance of the agree
ment was announced.
Chrysler, chairman of the manu
facturing concern, and Lewis, head of
the Committee for Industrial Organ
ization, waited at Lansing for the
evacuation to be completed before re
suming their negotiations this after
noon.
Gov. Frank Murphy, through
whose efforts the truce was negotiated,
at Lansing termed any talk of revo
lution in Michigan “utter and sheer
nonsense,” and said that as a result
of automotive labor developments,
“wages will be hgher, conditions better'
and our people will be more con
tented than n any State n the Union.”
Number in Each Plant.
Union officials estimated that 5,000
strikers occupied the main Dodge
plant in suburban Hamtramck, 1,400
each the Chrysler Jefferson and Ker
cheval plants, 650 in the Plymouth
factor}-, 450 in the Chrysler Highland
Park plant, and 250 each in the Dodge
truck. Dodge forge and De Soto fac
tories.
Dodge pickets were pacing a dark
street, pausing now and then to warm
their chilled hands at fires burning
in metal barrels, when union leaders
arrived. Strikers had barricaded them
selves behind large orange-colored
trucks placed end to end, blocking the
12-foot gates.
A few strikers, impatient over delay
in obtaining formal approval of the
truce, drifted out of the plants before
noon, but the scheduled evacuation was
deferred until the vote in the Ker
cheval plant completed ratification of
the agreement.
Under an agreement announced last
night by Gov. Murphy, Chrysler, Lewis
and high officials of the U. A. W. will
Yesume their conferences when the
plants are cleared.
The union officials began their per
sonal visits to the captive plants at
1:15 a.m. By 8:15 a.m. strikers in the
De Soto, Dodge, Highland Park Chrys
ler, Plymouth and Dodge Truck plants
had accepted the terms.
Martin, Frankensteen and other
union officials continued their tour of
the plants under which Chrysler offi
cials agree not to attempt a resumption
of operations until the strike issues
are settled, was requiring more time
than they had expected.
They spent an hour in the De Soto
plant, first to be visited. There are
250 strikers in that plant.
Two Plants Unanimous.
The Highland Park and Plymouth
strikers voted unanimously to ac
cept the truce, Martin said.
Pay roll clerks will be permitted to
enter the administration building at
the Highland Park plant. That will
facilitate the distribution of a $2,000,
000 pay roll for work done before the
strike began on March 8.
There were well authenticated re
ports that a strong faction in the
Dodge plant opposed the evacuation.
Martin, however, told them: “We
have no fear of coming out, for
neither the Chrysler Corp. nor any
other corporation can break one of
our strikes.”
His argument prevailed.
Day Spent in Parleys.
Gov. Murphy announced the agree
ment at the conclusion of a day of
conferences yesterday with Martin and
other representatives of both sides.
Michigan's chief executive, smiling
and flanked by Lewis and Chrysler,
called newsmen into his office to tell
them that the C. L O. chieftain had
agreed to the evacuation and that
the company promises not to resume
operations until the conference has
reached a definite conclusion upon
the union’s demand for recognition
as the sole collective bargaining
agency of the 67,00 Chrysler workers.
The agreement provided that the
firm would remove no dies, tools
or equipment from the plants dur
ing the negotiations and that execu
tives, office employes and other non
production workers would have "free
and uninterrupted access" to the
plants and offices.
Gov. Murphy, calling the confer
ence "a triumph of reason,” said
“there is no reason why the men
should not be withdrawn.”
As sit-down strikes drew increased
attention in official governmental cir
cles, President Roosevelt and Secre
tary of Labor Perkins expressed their
pleasure over the Chrysler evacuation
agreement
Conferences Planned.
Presidential aides, after stating that
Mr. Roosevelt would discuss the labor
situation and other topic* with eon
gressional leaders upon returning to
Washington from the South this week
end, said no special significance should
be attached to the conversations.
Their purpose was not disclosed.
Senator Prentiss M. Brown of Michi
gan told a Democratic rally at Grand
Rapids last night that “I cannot, as
a law-abiding citizen, approve” of the
sit-down technique, although he said
he was “in complete sympathy and
agreement with the deeper objectives”
of the strikers.
“In my deliberate judgment,” Brown
added, “the sit-down strike cannot be
considered solely on the basis of an
illegal trespass. The lack of admin
istrative machinery to conduct nego
tiations between industrialists and
laborers is one cause of the strike.”
Cadillac Strike Ended.
A three-hour sit-down strike in the
sheet metal department of the
Cadillac Motor Co., a General Motors
subsidiary, ended late yesterday, but
the terms of settlement were not an
nounced.
The settlement was effected under
the grievance provisions of the Gen
eral Motors-U. A. W. A. agreement
which ended the recent widespread
strike in the corporation’s plants.
The Chrysler shut-down caused the
Briggs Manufacturing Co. to lay off
20,000 workers, and 10,000 employes
of the Hudson Motor Car Co. still were
on strike. Negotiations were contin
uing to settle a sit-down in the Reo
Motor Car Oo.’s truck factory at Lan
sing, where 2,200 were out of work.
BACKED BY FEDERATION.
Boston Store Employes Get State
Unit’s Support.
BOSTON, March 25 (/P).—The Mas
sachusetts State Federation of Labor
last night “extended its moral and
financial support" to the Boston Local
Retail Store Employes’ Union, as
uniformed policemen ended their un
eventful vigil of Boston’s retail stores.
After an executive meeting, the
State federation indorsed the store
clerks’ union organization drive and
urged retail clerks to affiliate them
selves with it for the purpose of
"bettering the wages and working
conditions in Boston.”
Drive Directed at 18,000.
Earlier, William Hutchinson, presi
dent of the local, said the unionization
campaign was directed at 18,000 em
ployes in eight of the larger stores.
Joseph Prior, head of the Pawtucket,
R. I., local of the International
Chauffeurs, Teamsters, Stablemen’s
and Helpers’ Union, an affiliate of
A. F. of L„ threatened to “tie up”
Narragansett race track unless truck
drivers on a road construction job
were organized “100 per cent.”
With the expressed view of reaching
amicable negotiations with the man
agements of New England textile mills
within six to eight weeks, the organ
izing committee of the C. I. O. yester
day rounded out the first day of its
campaign to enroll the entire army of
250,000 operatives.
350 Textile Workers Out.
Another development in Pawtucket
occurred when 350 employes of the
American Textile Co., lace manu
facturers, were deprived of work. The
CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS.
_LUTHERAN.
Church of the Reformation
Opposite Folser-Shakespeare Library
818 East Capitol 8treet
Dr. Osear F. Blackwelder. Pastor.
Dr. John Weldley. Pastor Emeritus
Holy Thursday Communion. 8 P.M.
GOOD FRIDAY
ThreC'hour Service from 18 to 8 P.M.
Cantata: “Olivet to Calvary.” 8 P.M.
Holy Communion, 9:18 P.M.
Dr. Blackwelder Will Preach.
The Public Is Cordially Invited.
EPISCOPAL.
Washington Cathedral
Wisconsin and Massachusetts Avenees
and Wcodley Read
Good Friday. March 20
Holy Communion _7:30 a.m.
Morning Prayer and Litany —10:00 a.m.
Passion Service, conducted by
the Rt. Rev. Charles Plske.
D. D_12:00-3:00 P.m.
Evening Prayer4:00 p.m.
ST. JOHN’S CHURCH
16th and H Streets
GOOD FRIDAY SERVICES
T :30 A.M.—Ante-Communion and Peni
tential Office.
10:00 A.M.—Morning Prayer and Address
by the Rev. J. P. Madison.
12 Noon-3 PM.—Passion Service and
Addresses by Dr. Hart.
4:45 P.M.—Evening Prayer and* Addres*
by Mr. Madison.
8:00 P.M.—A Preparation Service for the
Easter Communion, conduct
ed by the Rev. Wm. Curtis
White._
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St. Margaret's
Conn. Art. and Bancroft Plact
Rev. Herbert 8eett Smith, D.D.,
Rector.
Rev. G. Berkeley GrilBth
Maundy Thursday
Tha Annual night celebration
of Holy Communion will be held
at 8 p.m.
Good Friday
Three Hours* Devotion, 12 to 8,
Conducted by the Rector.
plant closed down because 60 feminine
sit-downers refused to leave the build
ing, insisting they would remain until
they talked with agents of the Amal
gamation of Lace Workers of America.
The Springfield, Mass., Chamber of
Commerce announced a reduction of
hours in the work week for the em
ployes of eight of the larger men’s
clothing stores.
C. I. O. DRIVE OPPOSED.
Gas Station Operators Fight Organiz
ing Campaign.
CLEVELAND, March 25 OP).—The
National Council of Gasoline Station
Operators, an affiliate of the American
Federation of Labor, voted yesterday
to oppose the Committee for Industrial
Organization in its effort to organize
the marketing division of the pe
troleum industry.
The operators’ third annual con
vention also approved plans for a
membership drive. The C. I. O. group
recently established a Petroleum
Workers’ Organization Committee.
LEBANON PLANT REOPENS.
Bethlehem Steel Unit Closed Since
March 4.
LEBANON, Pa., March 25 045).—
The Lebanon plant of the Bethlehem
Steel Corp., closed by a strike March
4, reopened today under heavy police
guard. There was no disorder.
About 100 pickets representing the
Committee for Industrial Organiza
tion paraded near the main entrance,
but groups of steel workers moved
through unmolested.
ALLEGHENY STRIKE SETTLED.
Steel Firm Signs Accord With Organi
sing Group.
PITTSBURGH, March 25—Repre
sentatives of the Steel Workers’ Or
ganizing Committee announced early
today a strike at the two mills of the
Allegheny Steel Co. had been settled
two hours after it started.
Philip J. Clowes, sub-regional direc
tor for the Organizing Committee, and
Mike Petrak, an organizer, announced
company officials signed a contract
“similar in terms” to that negotiated
a week ago with Carnegie-Illinols and
four other subsidiaries of United
States Steel Corp.
Traffic Is Tied Up
By Fire Apparatus
After'False Alarm
Mistaken for a fire, a cloud of
smoke from the chimney of an
office building brought fire ap
paratus from all directions which
tied up traffic in front of the
Second National Bank at 1331 G
street shortly before noon today.
Firemen reported they could
find no sign of any fire. Four
teen pieces of fire apparatus and
two battalion chiefs responded.
CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS.
EVANGELICAL.
Calbarp
(^ospelCfjurcfj
1911 H St. N.W.
Washington, D. C.
HURT J. 8TEIL, Minister.
A candlelight communion
service will be held Good Friday
night at 8 o’clock. Special de
votional music. Quartet singing
of sacred songs. Everybody Is
welcome.
PRESBYTERIAN.
COVENANT
FIRST
Conn. Ave. at 18th A N Sts. N.W.
Dr. Albert Joseph McCartney
Rev. Samuel R. Allison
Ministers
Services Friday at 5 o'clock. Dr,
McCartney preaching. The Cov<
enant Choir will render "Th*
Seoen Last Word*.’’
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS
Kalonm* near Colombia Bd.
BEV. JOHN C. PALMEB, D. D.
Minister.
Cerdlal Welcome t# All.
GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE
AT 4 O'CLOCK
CIYTU Sixteenth and
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Good Friday
8 P.M.
“The Challenge of the
Crow”
Candlelight Communion
Service
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PARTY IS BLAMED
Gov. Nice Says Supplement
Could Have Been Submit
ted Last Night.
By tbe Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 25
Budget quibbling between Republican
Gov. Harry W. Nice and the Demo
cratic Legislature ended today with
the Governor agreeing to submit a
supplemental budget In the form the
leaders wanted it.
That budget will Include uncondi
tional allotments for pay restorations
of State employes and teachers. A
yearly aproprlatlon of $273,000 addi
tional for the University* of Maryland
will be Included, conditional upon rev
enue being found for that item.
Until a late hour last night Gov.
Nice had decided to throw the Uni
versity of Maryland fight onto the floor
of the Legislature. His plan at that
time was to let the Legislature decide
whether the university’s allotment
would be made unconditionally or con
ditional of finding the new revenue.
Democratic leaders opposed that
plan. Today the Governor yielded to
them.
Governor Blames House.
mere nad been some criticism of
the delay necessitated by the supple
mental budget and the Democratic
leaders blamed Gov, Nice.
The Governor said today:
“I could have sent in the budget
supplement last night and would have
made every effort to do so except that
the House adjourned for the evening.
If there is any delay on the budget
now it is not my responsibility.
The House adjourned late yesterday
afternoon so that most of the members
of the House could attend a party in
Baltimore. The party included a visit
to a burlesque show, a beer party and
a dancing party.
Details of the event were fairly well
shrouded in mystery. A number of
legislators requested that It be given
no publicity.
The center of the dispute between
Nice and Democrats was:
Wants Supplemental Budget.
The Governor wants to include in
the supplemental budget outright ap
propriations of $273,000 yearly for
the University of Maryland, of
$100,000 yearly for control of Bang's
disease and $40,000 yearly for control
of Japanese beetles.
The Senate and House have made
those appropriations contingent upon
the money being available. Mullikin
ana Senator J. Allan Coad, Finance
Committee chairman, have refused to
recede from that stand.
Mullikin contended that acceding to
the Governor’s stand would *iean a
risk that the State would have to dip
into the $1,500,000 working capital
created by a bond issue in 1935.
Dr. H. C. Byrd, president of the uni
versity, has consistently advocated
the three items under discussion.
Charges Delay for Trade.
In connection with the delay, Mul
likin said yesterday:
“The supplemental budget has not
been presented and I have been ap
proached by the representatives of the
Governor. I am inclined to believe
that he will not send it in until he
has had some opportunity to do some
trading.
“I know that this morning Mr.
Blakeman (Budget Director William
H Blakeman) and the president Oi the
university prevailed upon the Gover
nor not to send in the supplemental
budget as we had agreed upon it, but
to make its appropriations outright.
“I told Dr. Byrd I am not opposed
to the University of Maryland as long
as there are funds to take care
of it. * * *
“He (Byrd) told me he didn’t under
stand why I should interfere with the
Governor. He urged me to go see the
Governor, because, he said, the Gov
ernor was sure there was plenty of
money at hand. * • •
“President Byrd stood outside the
door of the Ways and Means Commit
tee and talked to individual members
and called me out for a confer
ence. • • •
"In my opinion, the Governor has
delayed sending in the supplemental
budget, going back on his word, In
tending to use teachers’ retirement
and pay restorations and other im
portant items for political barter and
to trade on other items in othei
parts of the budget.
“I think it is reprehensible. • • V
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BLOCKED AND
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Milliner? and Hat Bloekera
733 11th St. N.W. .
A Painful Sit-Down
She wouldn’t go willingly, so police at St. Louis used force
to take this woman picket (seated on sidewalk) to the patrol
wagon after a garment workers’ strike was declared yesterday
at the Solomon Dress Co. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Sit-Down
(Continued From First Page.)
vacate his plant and he would have
to make sure that the Secretary of
Labor was allowed to fix a “reason
able” time for negotiations.
Cites Court Ruling.
“The Supreme Court has held that
Congress cannot prevent movement
of lawful goods in interstate com
merce,” Dies said. “So why should
a group of men like sit-down strikers
be permitted to hold up such move
ment of goods, as they obviously are
doing?”
Secretary Perkins expressed hope
for the solution of the strike of auto
mobile workers in the Chrysler Motors
plants. She said she was gratified to
hear steps had been taken for with
drawal of sit-down strikers from the
plants, and added: i
“With John L. Lewis (chairman of
the Commitee for Industrial Organi
zation) and Walter Chrysler (presi
dent of the company) sitting down
together with Gov, Murphy I feel con
fident that they will approach their
problems in a constructive manner
and reach an agreement which will be
of benefit to workers and the manage
ment now and of mutual value in the
years to come.”
Senator Robinson said the confer
ence between the President and con
gressional leaders would be held at 5
p m. Saturday. He disclosed that the
meeting would be attended by him
self, Speaker Bankhead, Rayburn and
“perhaps" Vice President Garner.
Defends Strike as Legal.
Meanwhile, Representative Bernard,
Farmer-Laborite, of Minnesota, again
defended the automotive strike as
legal.
“I say this sit-down strike is law
ful,” he said, “and not a so-called in
vasion of property rights. The worker
also has an investment in industry,
not so easily measured in dollars, but
without which there could be no in
dustry, and he has a right to pro
tect it.”
Representative O'Brien, Democrat,
of Michigan, asked the House to set
aside $100,000 to investigate the auto
strike. Congress, he said, eventually
must frame legislation to safeguard
“the just rights of labor” in collective
bargaining.
Representative Hoffman, Republic
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an, of Michigan, said in a statement
that thousands of Michigan workers
want President Roosevelt to “repudiate
with firmness and in unequivocal
language the illegal, communistic in
strument of the sit-down strike."
He said the “epidemic of lawless
ness” had spread from State to State,
“always with the moral support of
the President and his public ad
visers and official admiriistrators.”
SOROPTIMISTS HEAR
TALK ON CONSTITUTION
Events leading up to the signing of
the Constitution were described yes
terday in an address by Charles Col
fax-Long, writer and lecturer, at a
luncheon of the Washington Soropti
mist Club at the Willard Hotel.
He called attention to the sacrifices
made on the battlefields by men of this
country to preserve that "priceless
treasure” to the American people, urg
ing that these facts not be forgotten.
The speaker also paid tribute to the
American woman, declaring no country
owes more to its women than does
America.
Announcement was made by Miss
Daisy Reed, club president, that the
club's parliamentary law and public
speaking class had postponed its
meeting scheduled for tonight.
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PACT IS POSSIBLE
Prosecutor Would Agree, He
Says, “If Ends of Jus
tice Are Met.”
By the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va„ March
25.—Commenting on statements by
counsel for Dr. R. O. Miller, Char
lottesville dentist, charged with mur
dering 18-year-old Cleo Sprouse,
Commonwealth's Attorney W. O. Fife
said today he believed a compromise
between defense and prosecution
“would be more satisfactory to all
concerned if the ends of justice can
be met."
Fife said no def.n’te proposals were
advanced by him or E. V. Walker,
chief counsel for Miller, at a confer
ence yesterday after Judge Lemuel F.
Smith set the trial date for April 12.
Walker said yesterday “the com
munity would be better off if a com
promise could be reached and the case
not brought to public trial.” Fife said
he concurred in this "providing, of
course, we feel the ends of justice will
be met.”
Neither defense or prosecution would
indicate what settlement they thought
would satisfy justice and Robert Tay
ior, Walker’s associate, said he thought
it unwise "at this time to disclose
what he would accept.”
Dr. Miller, married and father of
two children, has been a prisoner in
the Henrico County Jail, at Rich
mond, since his arrest two dayes after
the 18-year-old high school girl’s body
was found beside the University of
Virginia Cemetery with an upturned
chloroform can on her face.
Joining in the conference were
Commonwealth's Attorney W. O. Fife
and J. Tinsley Coleman, who has been
employed by the dead girl’s mother
to assist in the prosecution, and De
fense Attorneys Walker, Robert E.
Taylor, Leith S. Bremner and Har
old M. Ratcliffe.
Old Observations Amusing,
Estimates and observations regard
ing the industrial potentialities of
Germans and Italians made a hun
dred years ago are decidedly amusing
in the light of today. The Germans,
it was believed, would never reach the
degree of industrial development nr
the density of population attained by
the French or the English. The
Italians, even to quite recently, were
believed incapable of intensive indus
trial work.
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